In the new area

Ah im finally here in my area. I hate bus rides. haha it was like 18 hours in a bus to get here. haha. I love it here. My comp is super bomb. Elder Escobar. He is from Guatemala. He is super cool. We also share the ward with some sister missionaries. Hermana Villagra y Hermana Lyman. Hermana Villagra is from Buenos Aires. Hermna Lyman is from Delta Utah. They are super cool. Also we have elders from Illinois and Mexico in our district. They seem pretty cool. Everyone is super young haha. My comp leaves at the end of this transfer. He only has 5 weeks left ont eh mission. haha. crazy. 

I play piano on sundays now haha. I met a kid here in our ward that served in utah. He is super cool. We talked english together. He has a funny accent but he has been home for 4 years and doesnt have any way to talk in english with the people. 

We just met members this week. Had a cool lesson with some less activs that are going to go to church this sunday as a family. Flia diaz. We also have a few investigators. Cristian, he lives next to us. Litterally. haha. He is cool. Then flia salazar. they are super cool. saturday night we had pizza with them. super cool. the families here are super cool. The ward is bomb. we had like 20 people on sunday which i guess is normal haha. dang it. but its going to be good. Good week haha. love ya guys!!!!!!!!! 

LES AMO FAMILIA!!!!!!

ELDER ROSS

Going back to Neuquen!!!

well kids! haha

Elder Ross has been called to serve in the Neuquen Oeste zone in the Centenario A area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GETTING TRANSFERED!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha holy junk!!!!!!!!! haha im going to neuquen to finish my mission!!!!!!!!!!!! :) So yeah. We got transfers haha. My companion is going to be here with elder Julcahuanca. Remember him? he was my comp. One of my comps is coming to replace me haha. he and i got along really well.

So yeah haha. Im going to neuquen tonight. I did my goodbyes with the ward last night. It was super hard. I almost cried like a billion times. They are super amazing people here. I really have become close with alot of them. I was hoping to finish here or at least be here one more transfer. But the lord has called me to serve in Neuquen. Its going to be super good. My companion is going to be Elder Escobar. He is from Guatemala? I think so. He seems pretty chill. I guess we will see. Im super excited to be with a latin again haha. Its been a while hahah (one transfer)

WE didnt have a good week this week. Alot of people canceled on us but im super happy for elder larsen here. He is going to tear it up. Its a good area.
I dont know anything about mothers day haha. I will let you know next week. I think we will be doing skype.
Yeah im district leader. Have been for a while haha. Glad everyones doing good. LOVE YA KIDS!!!!!!! SEE YA IN NEUQUEN!!!!!

ELDER ROSS

Good week & date to come home

FAMILY!!!!!!!!!

 

so i FINALLY got my papers that have my official date!!!!!!!! THE 15TH OF JULY i will be on my way home. wow.......its passed by fast. I really have enjoyed the mission. It has changed my as you said mom, and it keeps doing changes that i really like. Maybe before in the mission i was scared to make the changes but now i am really lovin it. haha.

 

So here pretty soon you should be getting emails from the office about my papers to come home. WOAH. this is weird talking about this. hahah. it doesnt feel real. haha. i was telling my comp the other day, i dont think its going to hit me til i am on the bus ride to the office. WHICH, i would be finishing in the new mission. WEIRD!!!!!!!

 

This week was super good. WE had a super good week. Alot of sucess. big time. But, this week (this week that we are in) one of the less active families i helped activate is moving up north! Flia Leal :( but its all good cause they are going to keep going with the church. He gave me a tie yesterday :) They have plans here shortly to go to the temple as a family to get sealed! AND, we found out that one of our investigators has a marriage date (which he needs cause he is just living with a member girl) and so after their wedding he can get baptized!!!!!!!!! :) so it was a good week. We did divisions with the zone leaders this week, that helped us out alot with our numbers. We worked super hard. We also found a part member family that has a son that isnt member and the parents want us to baptize him. :)

 

The mission is just getting better. This transfer is about to end. Next week is transfers. Woah. haha passing quick. Thanks for all your support. Im doing great. couldnt be better. :) LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

ELDER ROSS

Conference Weekend

Well kids.... haha.

Conference was sick....no big. AMAZING. one word, amazing

 

THis was my last conference here on the mission. It was a bitter sweet moment. I really was able to enjoy as the spirit was able to testify the reality of the gospel

Right now we are reading the book of mormon before june 1st and i was able to finish 2nd nephi this morning, and i was able to read the amazing words that it talks about in chapter 31 about how the doctrine of christ is Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the holy ghost, and endure to the end. These things are true. I testify to that. I know that without a doubt. Its part of our purpose as missionaries. We repeat every tuesday

"invite others to come unto christ by helping them recieve the restored gospel, throught faith in jesus christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, recieving the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end" That is our purpose.

 

I really have enjoyed the experience of being on a mission. I havent had alot of baptisms but i have had alot of sucess. Thats what matters, the people i have helped. Memebers or not. That to me is more than anything. this week we had a really good lesson with a former investigator that we were able to contact again, the spirit was super strong as we were able to testify him and tell him that god has chosen him to follow him and to change his life to be able to be a diciple of him. That was our only lesson this week but it made my week.

 

We are so blessed to be able to be members of the church. Thanks for all your support.

 

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

 

ELDER ROSS

 

So, not only was conference BOMB!!!!!!!!!!! but....i did have a really cool experience coming home from conference. We got on the bus and i just didnt feel good, it was an uneasy feeling, maybe it was coming from a super spiritual place to such a wordly atmosophere. But i thought to myself "have faith elder, everything is going to be ok, remember what they talked about in conference, have faith in God". Then as soon as i could think, two kids got on the bus that were super drunk, that made me more uneasy, i thought "have faith elder, everything is going to be ok". The other elders got off the bus and it was just us two greengos (me and my companion) and the two drunk kids started making jokes at us. I smiled and thought "have faith elder" then they started whistling at us and calling our attention, they wanted to talk to us, reluctantly, i went over and made the contact. I introduced myself and found out their names, Iziquiel and Marcos (two names from the bible haha) they asked my what i did, i told them i was a missionary and that we talk about god with the people. They started asking questions about the church. I was able to realize that they believe very strongly in god. They told me "we are sons of god" which really struck me because thats what they talked about in conference, then soon they said that to them christ was their redentor, which another apostle had mentioned in conference. I was able to give them my testimony of the restored gospel and i was able to hear theirs. We have alot of beliefs in common and i wrote down their address, they accepted a visit from us.

I learned from that experience not only had i just witnessed the lords hand in my life but that he was able to give me a tender mercy. He knows us. Have faith in him. Dont doubt. Faith is something that i have always struggled with on my mission, or atleast to know what faith is and how it works. Now i know. Dont doubt, have faith. :)

 

ELDER ROSS

Happy Easter!

no big!!!!!!!!!! haha

 

the people just go on trips for easter. just go to the cordillera (andes). it was kinda a sucky week cause like everyone left for vacations haha. so like no one was home.

This week my comp got pretty sick. we stayed in the pench one day. he had a super bad headache from working so hard. like we are out all day and then like we are so focused on making the leaders happy and getting numbers so we forget to eat and drink water. so my comp got suuuuuuuper dehidrated. so yeah.

Emiliano is good. the family came to church again this sunday. WE have Ariels baptism planned for this sunday. its giong to be good. we hope he makes it. we have been praying and fasting alot for him. It will be general conference weekend. hope we make it in the confernce issue of the ensign. we dont have any other investigators.

nothin else has been going on. we worked all week and just no one was home haha. it was super stressful. chruch was good. i played for the first time here. The piano is suuuuuper out of tune but i played anyway and it sounded horrible. not only that but i messed up haha. poor people.

 

Elder Ross